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    The British invasions of the River Plate were two unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de...
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  • control of Buenos Aires in 1806; see British invasions of the River Plate § First invasion Reconquista (Spanish America), the restoration of Spanish colonial...
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    Thomas Plunket (category British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    He joined the 95th Rifles in May 1805. In 1807, he took part in the British invasions of the River Plate (1806–1807). During the 2nd Battle of Buenos Aires...
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  • as the British Invasion Invasions of the British Isles, an overview of historical invasions of the British Isles from c. 4000 BC to 1797 British invasions...
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  • battles of the French Revolutionary Wars Timeline of the Peninsular War (1807/8–1815) Franco-Swedish War (1805–1810) British invasions of the River Plate (1806–1807)...
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    La Reconquista de Buenos Aires (category British invasions of the River Plate)
    the first of the British invasions of the River Plate, and the subsequent recapture of Buenos Aires from the British. It was made in the proximity of...
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    formed part of the British invasions of the River Plate. Locally, it is remembered as the siege of Montevideo (Spanish: Sitio de Montevideo). In the early morning...
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    The action of 2 June 1807 was an engagement during the British invasions of the River Plate between a British Royal Navy schooner and two Spanish small...
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    Cornelio Saavedra (category People from the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata)
    is no definitive evidence of it. Buenos Aires was involved in the British invasions of the River Plate in 1806, when a British expeditionary force led by...
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  • Maitland Plan (category British invasions of the River Plate)
    during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, but were eventually defeated by the Spanish army and the local militias. An addition to the plan was...
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    John Whitelocke (category British invasions of the River Plate)
    Batsford Ltd, London, 1954, p. 53 Ben Hughes, The British Invasion of the River Plate 1806-1807: How the Redcoats Were Humbled and a Nation Was Born (2014)...
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    Payada (category Argentine styles of music)
    soldier who fought in the British invasions of the River Plate. Both in Argentina and Uruguay, the payada is considered part of the "gauchesca" culture...
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    authorization from the Crown for this undertaking. In the invasion of the River Plate, Buenos Aires was occupied for 46 days. However, the British force could...
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    Home Riggs Popham (category British invasions of the River Plate)
    David Baird in recovering the Cape of Good Hope Station from the Dutch in January 1806, he led the British invasions of the Río de la Plata on Buenos...
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    the Spanish form of his name. He was popularly regarded as the hero of the reconquest of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion of the River Plate...
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    José Gervasio Artigas (category People from the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata)
    lieutenant. The attack finally came in 1806, when William Beresford invaded Buenos Aires, in the first British invasion of the River Plate. Although Artigas's...
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  • Siege of Montevideo may refer to: Siege of Montevideo in 1807, during the British invasions of the River Plate First Siege of Montevideo in 1811 Second...
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    The Battle of Colonia del Sacramento took place in the night of 21/22 April 1807, during the British invasions of the River Plate. A force of 1,500 militias...
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  • El último virrey (category British invasions of the River Plate)
    British invasions of the Río de la Plata up to his death leading a counter-revolution against the May Revolution. The book is closely based on the real historical...
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  • seeing service in the Second Maroon War, the British invasions of the River Plate and the Peninsular War before being disbanded 1818 The former 2nd Bengal...
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    lasted for a couple of months, while Montevideo was under British occupation during the second British invasions of the Río de la Plata. The newspaper, a private...
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    Argentina–Ireland relations (category Bilateral relations of Argentina)
    control of parts of Argentina, mostly around the Río de la Plata area, which became known as the British invasions of the River Plate. During the invasion, several...
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    Juan Bautista Vitón (category British invasions of the River Plate)
    in the British invasions of the River Plate, serving as lieutenant of artillery in the Cuerpo de Voluntarios Artilleros de la Unión, take part in the main...
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    Libertadores (category People of the Spanish American wars of independence)
    Independence. Woodstock, The Overlook Press, 2000. ISBN 1-58567-072-3 James Higgins (editor). The Emancipation of Peru: British Eyewitness Accounts, 2014...
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    Ignacio Álvarez Thomas (category Supreme Directors of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata)
    the independence war in Argentina. In the war against the British in 1806/07, he was wounded and captured, and released only after the withdrawal of the...
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  • José Canaveris (category British invasions of the River Plate)
    English invasions in the Río de la Plata. He took an active part during the post colonial period of Argentina serving in the Comisaría de Guerra and the Ministerio...
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  • Juan Ángel Michelena (category People of the Spanish American wars of independence)
    Huidobro. The following year he joined the campaign of Santiago de Liniers. to fight against the British invasions of the River Plate, as head of the sailors...
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    participated in the British invasions of the River Plate and the Argentine Civil Wars. In 1820, he became the first constitutional Governor of Córdoba. In...
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    helped the failed British invasions of the River Plate. The Portuguese Civil War (1828–1834), when the United Kingdom gave important support to the Liberal...
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  • rule Falklands Crisis of 1770. Spanish–Portuguese War (1776–1777). British invasions of the River Plate. Independence Argentine War of Independence. Argentine...
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